The Hitler birthplace memorial stone is a memorial
to victims of the Nazis placed in front of Salzburger
Vorstadt 15, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, the building where Adolf Hitler was born
in 1889.
The building was rented by the Austrian Republic in 1952. Until 1965 it was the home of the public library and later a bank. From 1970 to 1976 several classes from the technical high school were held in the house, until the school was rebuilt. The house now accommodates a branch of the charity Lebenshilfe, and operates as a day centre and workshops for people with learning difficulties.
Suggestions regarding making Hitler's birthplace a place of remembrance (for the victims — not Hitler) had already been made in the early years after the war. For a long time, the council discussed putting up a memorial tablet on the house, and in 1983 the decision was made by the then mayor Hermann Fuchs, with intervention from Culture Advisor Wolfgang Simböck. However, the memorial tablet was not attached, because the owner (who had no connection to Hitler) felt that this was an intrusion into her rights of ownership. She successfully fought against it in court because of her fear of unwelcome attention or attacks from anti- or Neonazis.
In 1989 the new mayor Gerhard Skiba, took the initiative. In April, 1989 (two weeks before the centenary of Hitler's birth) a memorial was placed directly in front of the house on public ground.[1] The stone for the memorial came from a quarry on the grounds of the former Mauthausen Concentration Camp, near Linz, Austria). The inscription on the memorial reads:
"For Peace, Freedom and Democracy. Never Again Fascism. Millions of Dead Warn (us)".
The official name of the memorial is the "Memorial Stone Against War and Fascism". It appears as the "Mahnstein" ("Remembrance Stone") on street maps of Braunau.
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